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Submission + - 52nd Known Mersenne Prime Found! (mersenne.org)

Submitted by chalsall
chalsall writes: After more than six years of work since the last discovery, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has found the 52nd known Mersenne Prime number. This is also the largest prime number known to humans.

The number is 2^136279841 — 1, which is 41,024,320 decimal digits long. Luke Durant, a researcher from San Jose, CA, found it after contributing a fantastic amount of compute to the GIMPS project.

The official announcement is at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mersenne.org%2Fprime...

Submission + - 51st Known Mersenne Prime Found! (mersenne.org)

Submitted by chalsall
chalsall writes: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2^82,589,933-1, having 24,862,048 digits. A computer volunteered by Patrick Laroche from Ocala, Florida made the find on December 7, 2018. GIMPS has been on amazing lucky streak finding triple the expected number of new Mersenne primes — a dozen in the last fifteen years.

Submission + - Intel confirms Skylake crash erratum (bit-tech.net)

Submitted by chalsall
chalsall writes: Intel has confirmed an in-the-wild erratum affecting its latest Skylake processor architecture and causing hangs during certain computationally-intensive operations, with its OEM partners to roll out a hotfix by way of BIOS update sharpish.

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